The Tennessee Alabama and Georgia Lives Again!

[jordon412]

The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum has announced on their Facebook page that they have completed the restoration of Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia GP38 #80's today (4/28/2016). The locomotive, previously Norfolk Southern GP38 #2879, was shipped to Norfolk Southern's shops in Altoona, where it received mechanical work, then shipped back to the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum where it was given cosmetic work, along with being repainted into its original paint scheme.

Link to Facebook page with picture: https://www.facebook.com/tvrail

 

[norfolksouthern37]

Some more trivia.

This GP38 was built as TAG #1 in 1968. it was numbered 80 and named “The John A. Chambliss” while on the line.
TAG was purchased by Southern and the unit was renumbered #2879 and painted into the classy tuxedo paint of SOU but retained the name on the stripe.
The unit was retrofitted by SOU to have dynamic brakes and paper air filters.
It was the only Southern GP38 to have spark arrestors over the exhaust stacks.

Here is a link to an article about the naming of the locomotive.

http://www.trainweb.org/tagrailway/npas/tag80dedication.pdf

 

[jordon412]

Some more trivia.

This GP38 was built as TAG #1 in 1968. it was numbered 80 and named “The John A. Chambliss” while on the line.
TAG was purchased by Southern and the unit was renumbered #2879 and painted into the classy tuxedo paint of SOU but retained the name on the stripe.
The unit was retrofitted by SOU to have dynamic brakes and paper air filters.
It was the only Southern GP38 to have spark arrestors over the exhaust stacks.

That's pretty interesting. Just wondering, you got any plans on making a model of it?

 

[jordon412]

And now I've found a picture of it.

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